Sacha Baron Cohen Joins the Academy

Dee was a supporting-actress nominee for last year's American Gangster, while Cohen had a screenplay nomination the previous year with Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Also on the list of invitees released Monday were Jason Reitman, a best-director nominee for last year's Juno, and that film's writer, Diablo Cody, who won the original-screenplay Oscar.

Others include directors Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity), Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry) and Gore Verbinski (The Pirates of the Caribbean movies); writers Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin), Jeff Nathanson (Catch Me If You Can) and Tamara Jenkins (The Savages); and animators Ash Brannon (Surf's Up) and David Silverman (The Simpsons Movie).